8th April 2004, 2:02 PM
I still find it very funny that if she was skinny, it would be a good thing.
On the topic of Metroid; John Woo can be summed up with these three mental images - Doubled handed gun fights, white doves in slow motion and comic-book personalities who have problems in the home. Such as erectile dysfunction, poorly raising a child or a loveless marriage.
So imagine Samus Aran fighting Ridley while Shriek Bats scatter in slow motion and having an argument over who does the dishes. It could definitely work out though; it just has to emulate the style presented in the games. Mostly Prime simply because it gives us a deeper look in to what Samus sees in her environment. But one thing I noticed about Prime and its in game and cut scenes is that there's no slow motion. Ever. So if it's in the movie, it will feel wrong.
Some things I want to see in the movie:
The bird-like Chozo, not knowing why they need to, build the suit for the one that will protect the universe. They understand that they will someday find their home on Zebes and there they will spend the rest of their lives. They will also know that this planet is destined to die.
The Chozo traveling to dozens of planets and creating cities, places of worship and libraries not only for themselves but for the one that will be the protector of the universe. Creating shrines with gifts that will aid the one. Also, the Chozo deep in thought about why they have to create weapons when they live in such peaceful times
Over the course of millions of years, evolving past their physical bodies - leaving their cities behind them.
In contrast, the insect like species of the pirates systematically taking each planet they survey as their own, creating a hive-structure and proficiently draining the planet of its resources until it's dead. (The extinguished lives of the planets will have to play in to the story) On one planet, they will find an animal they will call the Metroid, a thing that even the pirates cannot control, instead they study it and present it to their queen; a super computer on board the pirate mother ship.
The pirates eventually find their way to a populated star system, they massacre millions of people lead by Ridley, a general with an incredible genius who was built by the pirates and designed by their queen to be a leader on the battlefield.
Now in modern times, there is a war between Earth Federation and the aptly named Space Pirates over land and entire planets. With a powerful general and an omnipotent lifeless queen.
On the planet of Zebes, a child that survived one of the worst massacres from the pirates is being unknowingly trained by a Chozo spirit. On the other side of the paradise-like planet, the pirates have already claimed it as their own and are working hard to take whatever they can from the planet as per the queen's orders.
The spirit of the Chozo sends the young adult woman he was training to Earth where she learns about the pirates and grows in to a mature, beautiful woman. Fed up with the Federation's stance on Anti-conflict laws, She steals a Federation ship and a combat suit and heads back for Zebes.
She finds her mentor dead sitting on a thrown holding a sphere. When she touches it, it becomes a sphere of light - thrusting the history of the Chozo in to her mind and the memories of Samus Aran's early child hood where she watched everyone she knew and loved killed by pirates. Once she understands what must be done, she heads to the Chozo ruins of Zebes where she finds altars with statues depicting the Chozo and offering her gifts just as her mentor did. In the heart of the Chozo ruins, she will be given the suit that the Chozo built millions of years ago. Samus Aran then systematically tries to over throw the Space Pirate Empire on Zebes until she reaches their core of operations - a giant organic super computer in the depths of the planet that runs the entire industrial operations of Zebes, a computer that can re-build or destroy planets at will. The super computer that lead the pirates in to becoming the most powerful force in the universe has gone beyond its original state, it is now a living, breathing God.
The real meat of the story I think should be how Samus learns what the pirates are. At first glance, they're just an organized faction doing their best to become a powerful force. But a deeper look would reveal that they themselves can only operate on a hive-mentality and they must create a queen. The queen they create is based soley on development of the pirate empire and is the driving force in the destruction of all life. When the pirates created Mother Brain, they didn't realize that they succesfully invented a very real evil that will lead them on to the path of war and death, when at their heart, they are only industrialists who follow orders from a queen.
to drive this point to the audience, I think Samus should pick up Mother Brain's thoughts and form some kind of communiccation with her telepathically. And Mother Brain will lead her (just as it leads the pirates) in to it's lair where Samus will discover what Mother Brain is and what its ultimate goal has always been - To harvest and perpetuate the growth of the Metroid life forms. Which in the begining, was an endangered animal waiting to die on a lifeless planet, but is now a weapon weilded by a planet devouring God.
Samus will learn over the course of the story that the pirates have taken dozens of planets, even entire star systems. And she knows that it's her destiny to find the pirate bases and destroy them before their evil is re-built.
Another interesting story dynamic that I doubt the script touches on is the fact that Metroid (the first game) tricked its audience in to thinking that Samus is a man. The movie could do the same thing.
On the topic of Metroid; John Woo can be summed up with these three mental images - Doubled handed gun fights, white doves in slow motion and comic-book personalities who have problems in the home. Such as erectile dysfunction, poorly raising a child or a loveless marriage.
So imagine Samus Aran fighting Ridley while Shriek Bats scatter in slow motion and having an argument over who does the dishes. It could definitely work out though; it just has to emulate the style presented in the games. Mostly Prime simply because it gives us a deeper look in to what Samus sees in her environment. But one thing I noticed about Prime and its in game and cut scenes is that there's no slow motion. Ever. So if it's in the movie, it will feel wrong.
Some things I want to see in the movie:
The bird-like Chozo, not knowing why they need to, build the suit for the one that will protect the universe. They understand that they will someday find their home on Zebes and there they will spend the rest of their lives. They will also know that this planet is destined to die.
The Chozo traveling to dozens of planets and creating cities, places of worship and libraries not only for themselves but for the one that will be the protector of the universe. Creating shrines with gifts that will aid the one. Also, the Chozo deep in thought about why they have to create weapons when they live in such peaceful times
Over the course of millions of years, evolving past their physical bodies - leaving their cities behind them.
In contrast, the insect like species of the pirates systematically taking each planet they survey as their own, creating a hive-structure and proficiently draining the planet of its resources until it's dead. (The extinguished lives of the planets will have to play in to the story) On one planet, they will find an animal they will call the Metroid, a thing that even the pirates cannot control, instead they study it and present it to their queen; a super computer on board the pirate mother ship.
The pirates eventually find their way to a populated star system, they massacre millions of people lead by Ridley, a general with an incredible genius who was built by the pirates and designed by their queen to be a leader on the battlefield.
Now in modern times, there is a war between Earth Federation and the aptly named Space Pirates over land and entire planets. With a powerful general and an omnipotent lifeless queen.
On the planet of Zebes, a child that survived one of the worst massacres from the pirates is being unknowingly trained by a Chozo spirit. On the other side of the paradise-like planet, the pirates have already claimed it as their own and are working hard to take whatever they can from the planet as per the queen's orders.
The spirit of the Chozo sends the young adult woman he was training to Earth where she learns about the pirates and grows in to a mature, beautiful woman. Fed up with the Federation's stance on Anti-conflict laws, She steals a Federation ship and a combat suit and heads back for Zebes.
She finds her mentor dead sitting on a thrown holding a sphere. When she touches it, it becomes a sphere of light - thrusting the history of the Chozo in to her mind and the memories of Samus Aran's early child hood where she watched everyone she knew and loved killed by pirates. Once she understands what must be done, she heads to the Chozo ruins of Zebes where she finds altars with statues depicting the Chozo and offering her gifts just as her mentor did. In the heart of the Chozo ruins, she will be given the suit that the Chozo built millions of years ago. Samus Aran then systematically tries to over throw the Space Pirate Empire on Zebes until she reaches their core of operations - a giant organic super computer in the depths of the planet that runs the entire industrial operations of Zebes, a computer that can re-build or destroy planets at will. The super computer that lead the pirates in to becoming the most powerful force in the universe has gone beyond its original state, it is now a living, breathing God.
The real meat of the story I think should be how Samus learns what the pirates are. At first glance, they're just an organized faction doing their best to become a powerful force. But a deeper look would reveal that they themselves can only operate on a hive-mentality and they must create a queen. The queen they create is based soley on development of the pirate empire and is the driving force in the destruction of all life. When the pirates created Mother Brain, they didn't realize that they succesfully invented a very real evil that will lead them on to the path of war and death, when at their heart, they are only industrialists who follow orders from a queen.
to drive this point to the audience, I think Samus should pick up Mother Brain's thoughts and form some kind of communiccation with her telepathically. And Mother Brain will lead her (just as it leads the pirates) in to it's lair where Samus will discover what Mother Brain is and what its ultimate goal has always been - To harvest and perpetuate the growth of the Metroid life forms. Which in the begining, was an endangered animal waiting to die on a lifeless planet, but is now a weapon weilded by a planet devouring God.
Samus will learn over the course of the story that the pirates have taken dozens of planets, even entire star systems. And she knows that it's her destiny to find the pirate bases and destroy them before their evil is re-built.
Another interesting story dynamic that I doubt the script touches on is the fact that Metroid (the first game) tricked its audience in to thinking that Samus is a man. The movie could do the same thing.